EMPLOYMENT

EDUCATION

Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2012
M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Virginia, 2009
B.A., Mathematics and English, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2005

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Disney’s Victorians: Literary History in a Global Media Age. Book manuscript in progress.

PUBLICATIONS

Book

The Legacy of the Moral Tale: Children’s Literature and the English Novel, 1744-1859 (University of Tennessee Press, 2016). The book documents the importance of children’s tales to the history of the novel. After tracing the origins of the moral tale from the mid-eighteenth century into the Romantic period, I show how Victorian writers like Charles Dickens incorporated the conventions of these tales into their own fictions. The Victorians grew up reading moral tales, and that childhood reading helps explain the imitative, didactic relationship that many Victorian novelists aim to create with their readers.